It can only be natural that this stuff of raw, creative, mercurial potential, when stirred and activated by our attention and scrutiny, stares, mirror like, straight back at us; A personality of utter antithesis.
The more of ourself that remains locked away, hidden and denied, the stronger and more diabolical the ‘demon’s’ presentation.
To some, it is the very Devil himself.
The alchemist’s thought of this ‘monster’ as Mercurius and held him in the highest esteem.
He is the trickster god, there to pop the inflationary bubble; Serious, deadly and ruthless or playful, beguiling and irreverent. Whatever it takes to get the ‘job’ done.
Those who feel they have a lot to lose, rightly fear him the most.
